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<p>The Libraries Taskforce’s strategy document, Libraries Deliver: Ambition for Public
Libraries in England 2016 to 2021, sets out a bold and dynamic vision of how library
services in England can help transform lives, communities and society as a whole.
This includes more people, including children, benefitting from the range of services
provided by libraries. Examples of initiatives to encourage increased access by children
to libraries include a voluntary scheme introduced by Hampshire County Council that
provides parents with the opportunity to sign up their new born babies to their library
at the time of registering their birth. The Summer Reading Challenge which promotes
reading for children at their local library has resulted in many thousands of children
aged 4 – 11 joining a library.</p>
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